Eladio Carrión has been holding it lit. He’s freshly off releasing a Billboard-charting album 3MEN2 KBRN (pronounced tremendo cabrón), making ready his first ever pageant Sauce Boyz Fest and plotting a nationwide tour, which features a cease at Coachella.
Whereas in Austin for his Billboard Presents The Stage at SXSW efficiency earlier this month, the Puerto Rican rapper sat down with Leila Cobo, chief content material officer of Billboard Latin/Español, to debate his historical past and newest whereabouts.
“Tremendo cabrón as a result of this album has all of the cabrones,” says Cobo, congratulating the artist for his star-studded launch, which incorporates company similar to Lil Wayne, 50 Cent, Future, Fivio International, Dangerous Bunny and extra.
“We actually obtained to get my favourite artists on this album. This one is a really particular album for me and my crew,” says Carrión. “[Lil Wayne] is certainly one of my favourite rappers. He’s the explanation why I don’t wait each 4 bars for a punchline. Each bar can have a punchline. Wayne used to do it, so I do it.” (The “A Milli” rapper starred on Carrión’s remix for “Gladiador.”)
The Latin lure star mentions that there was by no means a Plan B for the album, “If Plan A doesn’t occur, let’s wait till it does. Plan A till the top of the world.”
Born in Kansas Metropolis, the Puerto Rican, whose father was within the Military, moved round typically throughout his youth, from Hawaii to Baltimore and Alaska. And earlier than he grew to become a rapper, he was a comic in addition to a songwriter to different artists. “There got here a degree once I simply wasn’t happy [writing for others] when the music got here out,” he reveals. “I used to be simply giving them a chunk of me, and it was some private stuff, it was like, ‘D–n, he didn’t undergo that, I went by means of that. I need to inform my story.’”
Carrión found his love for the stage, saying that performing is an enormous a part of what made him fall in love with being an artist and eager to be an artist. He additionally tells Cobo to anticipate massive surprises for his Coachella gig, which is able to happen the weekends of April 14 and April 21.
On Might 18-20, the rapper will kick off his first-ever pageant in Puerto Rico, and to anticipate performances from Argentine giants Bizarrap and Duki, in addition to Dominican dembow artist Tokischa.
This week, his 3MEN2 KBRN album debuted at No. 3 on Prime Latin Albums Chart, and reached No. 16 on Billboard 200.
Watch Billboard‘s full interview with Eladio Carrión above.
